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Lamp (lighting devices)
Needle case; textile tool

Harpoon

Shingleback lizard; shingle-back; stumpy tail lizard; pinecone lizard; sleepy lizard (tiliqua rugosa)
Bucket (containers)

Mask (dance & live theatre)

Mask (dance & live theatre)

Needle case; textile tool
Beater

Concertina

Boot

Boot

Fish club (club (hunting, fishing & trapping))

Knife (hunting, fishing & trapping)

Parka

Tufted duck (aythya fuligula)

Boots

Seal harpoon; sheath (hunting, fishing & trapping)

Harpoon

Bucket (food processing & storage)

Doll (pastimes: toys)

Frame drum

Seal harpoon

Parka

Snow goggles

Parka

Walrus harpoon

Walrus harpoon
Stopper (containers)

Snow goggles

Needle case; textile tool

Lamp (lighting devices)

Doll (pastimes: toys)

Harbour seal (phoca vitulina)

European mole (talpa europaea)

Leaf nosed bat (phyllostomidae)

Eurasian eagle owl (bubo bubo)
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